Re^2: I-series commands from Windows script

Thanks Corion,

It looks a bit involved, but I'm still slogging through it - I just got the Sourceforge version of the 3270. Even if I get it to work through OLE, not sure how I'd go about making it into a nicely wrapped standalone app. Perhaps I can just bind the 3270 emulator into the perl exe...wish there was an easier way!

petecm99

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Re^3: I-series commands from Windows script by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 22, 2010 at 21:42 UTC
What I really like about the IBM 3270 emulator is that it is interactive so you get to watch where your script gets stuck and you can also easily inspect what your script sees when it makes decisions. I have a nicely wrapped 3270 library, but I developed it for $work so I'm not really sure that I can release it onto the CPAN even though the "main" 3270 application just got decommissioned. But the successor application also got 3270 access because deep down it still runs on an IBM host+database, so the framework will still stay in place, just in case the fancy new web interface (or XML interface) doesn't work out...	[reply]

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Re^3: I-series commands from Windows script
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 22, 2010 at 21:42 UTC

What I really like about the IBM 3270 emulator is that it is interactive so you get to watch where your script gets stuck and you can also easily inspect what your script sees when it makes decisions.

I have a nicely wrapped 3270 library, but I developed it for $work so I'm not really sure that I can release it onto the CPAN even though the "main" 3270 application just got decommissioned. But the successor application also got 3270 access because deep down it still runs on an IBM host+database, so the framework will still stay in place, just in case the fancy new web interface (or XML interface) doesn't work out...

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